Does Veeky Forums go to car shows?

Does Veeky Forums go to car shows?

What do you think of them?

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I really do appreciate that there are a whole bunch of dedicated guys out there who meticulously and lovingly maintain old cars. It's something i'd love to do one day(when i have the money of course. No surprise that these places are always full of boomers)

Other than muscle car shows,i always enjoy the excitement of large industry auto shows that feature everything from the latest in car desing, the next great market failure and sexy concept cars.

Lots of fun looking at clean classics also getting an up close look at today's supercars

I rarely bother with static events any more now that you can find tons of events with amateur autoX, drifting, and track days where you can actually drive your car and have fun rather than hard park and sit in a lawn chair.

>Does Veeky Forums go to car shows?

Lots of areas have "Drive Up" (aka "cruise-in") type car shows. Sometimes, those even regularly occur every month and have quite a few cars. In areas where there are lots of millionaires or wealthy families, you may even have car shows every week such as the Los Angeles area, San Fran, or Seattle. On the west coast, the biggest regular supercar shows that go on every week are in Los Angeles followed by Seattle (technically a suburb city of the seattle area). That weekly one is an organized cruise-in at Redmond Town Center (redmond as in microsoft). Those happen every Saturday. It claims to be the largest weekly car gathering event north of Los Angeles. Picture from that event.

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I didn't even know of these events until I read about them in the local Veeky Forums Meet threads. If there is an Veeky Forums meet thread for your area, you might read them since they often discuss ideas of car-related events or places to visit. So even if you don't go to the Meet, you can find out about some things. An example of the august Meet for the seattle area:

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In the previous Arizona Meet thread, there were various cruise-in car shows mentioned along with their locations. There was even a regular "classic and rare car" show in the phoenix area which included auctions of various rare or collectible cars. It was supposed to be one of the bigger such regular events in the country for such cars too. Since the cars are always changing, these types of car shows are suitable for "repeat watching" unlike static museum displays which don't even have owners standing by talking about their cars, restorations, and mods.

>go to car shows
only when they are near by
>what I think of them
I'm getting to bitter and jealous to enjoy them

Been to the midnight of the Oasis a couple times
It's ok BUT filled with fucking boomers about 60 percent of them bought the car the way it is or paid someone 80 percent of the cars there are either a Camara mustang or corvette
It just gets annoying when your walking down the row of cars and you can pretty much guess what the next one is going to be and what's in it
But there is alot of gems that make it worth all the generic cars

If they have nothing nearby walking distance then they are not worth it. Instead of overpriced vending, just go to the local restaurant.
Some shows take entire downtown inna small town so you can just dine with car parked or something.
Some car shows are honestly not even car shows but product conventions.
Show registration fee costs more than parking, but why would you ever pay for a free walk in event anyway?

Don't go to Association events, ever.

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>Some car shows are honestly not even car shows but product conventions.

Those are the ones that schedule official venue places with high expenses like a convention center. So those are a bit obvious. But you can see some interesting new car-related products there. For example, I saw a tool that can read identification of cars from a distance. It doesn't need a license plate. It's a bit big brotherish.